Top Country Songs of 1956 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #19] US: B-side to Don't Be Cruel; hit for Big Mama Thornton in 1953; charted as Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog in US Hot 100 charts
[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #45]
[RCA Victor 47-6420]
written by Mae Boren Axton, Thomas Durden & Elvis Presley

[Capitol 3602]
written by Ric Cartey & Carole Joyner

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #437] adapted from "Aura Lee", 1861
[RCA Victor 47-6643]
written by Vera Matson, Elvis Presley, George R. Poulton & Ken Darby

[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Maurice Mysels & Ira Kosloff

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #95]
[Sun 234]
written by Carl Perkins

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #197] charted as Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog in US Hot 100 charts
[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley

US: from Elvis, Volume 1 EP
[RCA Epa-992+]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

as Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #102]
[Capitol 3450]
written by Gene Vincent, Donald Graves & Tex Davis

[Dot 45-15481]
written by Naomi Ford & Lee Hazlewood

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #30]
[Sun 241]
written by Johnny Cash

[Columbia 21545]
written by Melvin Endsley

US B-side to Heartbreak Hotel
[RCA Victor 47-6420]
written by Aaron Schroeder, Bill Peppers, Claude Demetrius & Hal Blair

[Capitol 3343]
written by Merle Travis

[Dot 45-15503]
written by Leroy Van Dyke & Buddy Black

US B-side to Love Me Tender
[RCA Victor 47-6643]
written by Aaron Schroeder & Cliff Owens

[Columbia 21510]
written by Ralph Mooney & Chuck Seals

[Capitol 3542]
written by Sonny James

US B-side to I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Arthur Crudup

[Capitol 3300]
written by Autry Inman

[Sun 243]
written by Carl Perkins & Howard "Curley" Griffin

as Jim Edward, Maxine and Bonnie Brown
[RCA Victor 47-6480]
written by Ira Louvin & Charles Louvin

[Columbia 21562]
written by Ray Price & Wayne Walker

written by Webb Pierce

[Capitol F3443]
written by Don Gibson

written by Benny Barnes & Dee Marais

[Decca 9-29956]
written by Pee Wee Maddux

US B side to I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night
[Capitol 3369]
written by Faron Young & Eddie Thorpe

written by Johnnie Wright, Jack Anglin & Jim Anglin

written by Eddie Smith

[Starday 264]
written by George Jones

[Decca 29805]
written by Webb Pierce & Danny Dill

[Columbia 21522]
written by Pat Patterson & Leon Payne

[Capitol 3347]
written by Lyle Gaston & Hank Thompson

[Sun 232]
written by Johnny Cash

[Columbia 21562]
written by Don Gibson

as Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two
[Sun 232]
written by Johnny Cash & Gordon Jenkins

written by Ted Daffan

[RCA 47-6578]
written by Jack Rhodes & Dick Reynolds

written by Gary Walker, Shorty Long & Bob Newman

[RCA 47-6379]
written by Eddie Noack

written by Hy Heath

written by Audrey Allison, Joe Allison, Faron Young, Gertrude Cox & Jack Rhodes

[RCA 47-6578]
written by Dusty Rose & Betty Rose

[Decca 9-29876]
written by Red Sovine & Webb Pierce

[Decca 9-29876]
written by Red Hayes & Buddy Dee

written by Don Robertson & Lou Herscher

[Columbia 21552]
written by Charles L. Seitz, Joe Lewis & Elmer Rader

[Decca 9-30087]
written by Dan Welch

[Columbia 21522]
written by Leon Payne

[Capitol 3523]
written by Don Winters & Ray Edenton

[Starday 247]
written by George Jones

[Columbia 21510]
written by Shirley Jones & Ray Price

written by George Jones & Darrell Edwards

[Decca 29974]
written by Webb Pierce

written by Roy Botkin

written by Werly Fairburn

[Capitol 3413]
written by Betty E. Harrison

B side to You're Running Wild
[Capitol 3523]
written by Ira Louvin & Charley Louvin

[Decca 29974]
written by Jimmie Rodgers [country singer]

[Columbia 21538]
written by Tillman Franks & Johnny Horton

[Capitol 3357]
written by Sonny James & Jack Morrow

US B side to Singing the Blues
[Columbia 21545]
written by Marty Robbins

[RCA Victor 47-6365]
written by Richard M. Jones

[RCA 47-6517]
written by Ben Weisman, Hal Blair & Bill Peppers

[RCA Victor 47-6421]
written by Yolanda Adams, Errol McCalla Jr., Jonathan Broussard & Marcus Ecby

[Columbia 21552]
written by Joe H. Brewster, Pearl D. Jones & Carl Smith

written by Darrell Edwards & George Jones

written by Ted Edlin, Faron Young, Wayne Walker & Gary Bryant

written by Johnny Horton, Tillman Franks & Howard Hausey

[Dot 1278]
written by George Jones & Darrell Edwards

[Decca 9-29715]
written by Jack Newman & Charlie Walker

[MGM 12194]
written by Don Gibson

[Decca 30045]
written by Webb Pierce

written by Maybelle Carter & Helen Carter

[Decca 30045]
written by Webb Pierce

[RCA 47-6502]
written by Cindy Walker & Eddy Arnold

[Decca 9-29887]
written by John Skye & Sonny James

[Columbia 21539]
written by Wanda Jackson

written by Carl Perkins, Howard Griffin & Wanda Ballman

[Columbia 21493]
written by Danny Dill

[RCA 47-6379]
written by Clarence E. Snow

[Decca 29823]
written by Tillman Franks & Jimmie Davis

[Capitol 3441]
written by Bill Smith

as Jim Edward, Maxine and Bonnie Brown
[RCA Victor 47-6480]
written by Ira Louvin & Charlie Louvin

[RCA Victor 47-6598]
written by Boudleaux Bryant

[Decca 9-29956]
written by Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant

[Dot 1283]
written by Jimmy Newman

[Decca 9-29747]
written by Jimmy Fautheree

as Johnnie & Jack & The Tennessee Mountain Boys with Ruby Wells
[RCA Victor 47-6395]
written by John Bailes & Walter Bailes

[Capitol 3347]
written by Lyla De Rouche & Orville Proctor

[RCA Victor 47-6494]
written by Bill Monroe

[Capitol 3408]
written by Dick Reynolds & Jack Rhodes

[Hickory 1051]
written by Wilma Lee Cooper

[Decca 9-29825]
written by Bill Hamby & Clyde Chesser

[Capitol 3485]
written by Thelma Blackmon

[RCA 47-6601]
written by T. Lawrence Seibert & Eddie Newton